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Possibly it's just people buying them all up without demand actually going down.

In short, "****in' collectors..."

That's probably it. I've also come to understand that lots of people are obsessed with everything developed by Atlus, plus they don't print very many (apparently they already reprinted this game about a year ago -- here's hoping they do it again for some reason). That's a combination that doesn't bode well for people waiting for the price to go down, such as myself.

I was just talking aesthetically. And maybe I was exaggerating, because Chikorita is the only one that's flat-out the worst, but Bulbasaur and Treecko are the only ones that aren't mediocre. It's hard to take the entire evolutionary lines into account, though, since most of them switch around as you go up.

Originally Posted by SugarFreeJazz

Not to mention they have the same amount of weaknesses as both fire and water starters combined. I mean, is there any good reason for them to be weak against poison types anyway?

A product of Gen I balancing? As if half of what happened back then made any sense. I mean I guess the idea is weed-killer or something, maybe, but tons of the poison-types are plant based, so it seems like it'd make more sense for them to resist it.

I may be in the minority, but I love Torterra. I ran a jolly one with full speed EVs for awhile. Earthquake is just brutal. Amazing. So much love for that pokemon.
I always pick grass and so was really disappointed with last gen. Serperior is just such an awful pokemon. But this game? Fennekin. No question. That is the cutest thing I have ever seen.
October cannot possibly come soon enough. I am more excited about this Pokemon game than I am about, well, anything else.

How did the mathematician solve his constipation problem?
He worked it out with a pencil.

I may be in the minority, but I love Torterra. I ran a jolly one with full speed EVs for awhile. Earthquake is just brutal. Amazing. So much love for that pokemon.
I always pick grass and so was really disappointed with last gen. Serperior is just such an awful pokemon. But this game? Fennekin. No question. That is the cutest thing I have ever seen.
October cannot possibly come soon enough. I am more excited about this Pokemon game than I am about, well, anything else.

Torterra will always be in my top 5 favorite Pokemon. It's just so fantastic.'

As for me, Froakie all the way. Chespin is a close second, but damn I love frogs so freaking much.

Sorry. I'm not a big Gen IV fan in general. Turtwig is ok, but I don't like either Grotle or Torterra (nice type combo though)

Originally Posted by Phlogiston

That would make Serperior even worse, because it has the lowest stats among the other Grass-type starters' final evos, last I checked.

Not to mention it loses its legs. Poor thing.

Originally Posted by GrizzlyB

I was just talking aesthetically. And maybe I was exaggerating, because Chikorita is the only one that's flat-out the worst, but Bulbasaur and Treecko are the only ones that aren't mediocre. It's hard to take the entire evolutionary lines into account, though, since most of them switch around as you go up

I love Chikorita and both its evos

Originally Posted by kochoupink

But this game? Fennekin. No question. That is the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Gen IV suffered from too many new (and sometimes pointless) evolutions. Magmortar should have been put down at birth.

On the subject of starters I generally pick the Water one, with the exception of RS (and GS I guess, but I quickly traded a Totodile onto my team after picking Cyndaquil so). Sceptile is the ultimate starter. Amazing Pokemon.

Originally Posted by ArmorAndonomon

As for me, Froakie all the way. Chespin is a close second, but damn I love frogs so freaking much.

Agreed re: Froakie. He looks like someone who knows how to have a good time.

I usually pick the water starters except in gen. 5 (and I guess gen. 4 since I haven't played any of those yet) since I picked Snivy because I actually kind of like Serperior's design. I thought it was better than the other two options. If I get one of the gen. 6 games (and that's a big if because I don't have a 3DS), I'd probably go with Fennekin assuming the final evolution isn't hideous. The other two are actually pretty cute too, but I've never used a fire starter before.

Y'know how sometimes some things better left unsaid, not only because it's not a great idea to say them, but also because there's no reason to say them at all? I'm thinking now might be one of those times. Mayyyyyybe.

In other resounding news that will undoubtedly affect each and every person who reads this, I never realized before that video games released not even 2 years ago could be so impossible to find for a semi-reasonable price, but evidently that's exactly the case with Radiant Historia. It's made me pretty paranoid about other games that I've had my eye on for a bit, so I finally gave in and bought The Last Story and Xenoblade Chronicles so that I won't get gouged for them down the line, but does anybody know if there's anything in particular about Radiant Historia that justifies a $50-70 price tag for a handheld game? From what I've heard, it's good, but not outstanding, and I'm pretty sure it was going for the normal ~$30 a month ago. Just the damnedest thing.

Radiant Historia was climbing up to high prices a year ago when most of the stock was sold. They reprinted it around this summer and it was back to retail price. Then the reprint stock was mostly sold and prices climbed back up again. If you want a copy for a reaosnable price, you may want to scour as many gamestops as possible until you find a copy since they usually don't sell at collector's prices. I actually got Kirby Squeak Squad and Mario and Luigi Partners in time yesterday at gamestop for a reasonable price and less than they go for online.

There really isn't that much special about Radiant Historia. It is just considered one of the best JRPG's for the system and likely had a small print run. Climbing prices seems to be an issue with a lot of DS games right now honestly. (I think, Amazon isn't always the best indicator as secondary sellers on the site are much worse with price gouging than other sources)

The whole secondary market for video games can get pretty insane sometimes. It makes shopping for games way more involving than it needs to be.

Up until now, I have always picked the grass starter. I loved all of them, from Bulbasaur to Snivy. But chespin looks weird to me, Unless it's final evo is something that actually might be worth using, I'll go with that. but until the Final Evo's are picked, I'm sticking with fennekin. Froakie looks like a frog, and we have more than enough Amphibian Pokemon.

I wonder if Nintendo keeps stats on the starters that show how people many pick certain ones more than others like Cyndaquil or Totodile over Chikorita. Would paint an interesting picture of which type is most popular and in what region of the world.

I always picked the Fire Starters except in the 3rd gen because of Treeko and Sceptile. I haven't played 5th gen but 3/5 Fire starters isn't bad lol. I'll go with fire if I buy 6th gen.

I got to the place where you find those grass deer Pokemon thing. The route after you beat the ground gym leader.

I don't really remember any names or locations, but I'm somewhere there.

To be honest, that's probably about where I started seriously getting into a slump with that game. Clay was painfully easy, and I just started to feel a bit of drag there. It's also right next to the first mandatory cave of the game so **** that place anyway (Well, okay, I guess the sewer counts as a cave maybe)

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mother**** my ears just popped and it hurt like a *****
at least I can hear again. sort of.
AGH I popped my other one and that hurt even more but now both my ears are more normal than than they've been in the past few days.